Ghent University; “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920” (Web)
Time: 28-29 May 2019
Venue: Ghent University, Belgium
Proposals by 15 November 2018
Research on women’s contributions to the periodical press often focuses on women’s periodicals, considering them as separate “feminized” spaces devoted to the interests of particular circles of female readers. This conference takes a different approach. Focusing on women editors rather than women’s periodicals, it explores how periodical editorship enabled women to create public voices, participate in public debate and act as agents of change far beyond their immediate sphere of influence. As part of the European Research Council funded project “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920,” the organizers invite papers on a wide variety of topics related to female periodical editorship in Europe in the broadest historical sense of the word (not just the current European Union) from the early eighteenth to the early 20th century.
Topics may include
- Women editors as makers of culture or arbiters of taste
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